Overreliance on Meta and Google
When two platforms bring in most new customers, every auction shift, policy change, or account issue hits revenue directly.
E-commerce growth partner · Pinterest specialists
Scalypin helps e-commerce brands unlock Pinterest's potential through performance-driven ad management, reliable conversion tracking, and conversion-focused website optimization. Pinterest is where we start. Your growth is the job.
€350K+ in ad spend managed · 5,000+ ad-driven orders · Founder-led
AurélienFounder, Scalypin
Campaign card is illustrative. No client data shown.
Proof, not promises
These come from ad accounts we run and advise, including our founder's own Shopify brand. No mockups, no rounded-up dreams: every figure has a source and a period.
Figures from Pinterest Ads Manager, Meta Ads Manager, and Shopify exports, each with its period. Pinterest-attributed revenue uses Pinterest reporting; store revenue covers all channels. Client brand anonymized. Past results do not guarantee future performance.
The problem
Many e-commerce brands grow on two channels until those channels get expensive. Pinterest stays on the list of things to test later. These are the gaps we see most often.
When two platforms bring in most new customers, every auction shift, policy change, or account issue hits revenue directly.
More brands bid for the same audiences. CPMs and cost per purchase creep up, and your margin absorbs the difference.
People come to Pinterest to plan what they will buy next. Brands that are absent miss shoppers while they are still choosing.
A missing purchase event or a duplicated tag makes Pinterest look better or worse than it is, and budget decisions start from bad data.
Qualified clicks land on pages with unclear shipping, weak imagery, or reviews buried at the bottom, and they leave.
Ads cut for Stories and Reels rarely fit a discovery feed where people save, compare, and come back days later.
Pinterest can become a valuable additional acquisition channel when strategy, creative, measurement, and conversion experience work together.
Pinterest in numbers
640 million people use Pinterest every month to decide what to buy, cook, wear, and build next. Most of them start without a brand in mind.
Sources: Pinterest Q2 2026 results and Pinterest Business audience data. Figures published by Pinterest, not Scalypin results.
What we do
From campaign strategy to conversion measurement, we build the foundations for sustainable e-commerce growth.
Strategic campaign management designed to help e-commerce brands reach relevant audiences, test creative concepts, and improve acquisition performance.
Reliable conversion measurement to help you understand how Pinterest contributes to your e-commerce performance.
Identify the friction points preventing your store from turning qualified visitors into customers.
Who we work with
Pinterest at $30K a month in revenue looks nothing like Pinterest at $3M. We adapt the scope, the pace, and the reporting to where your brand is today.
Founder-led DTC brands
When budgets are tight, the first months decide whether Pinterest earns a place in your mix. We keep the setup lean and the learning fast.
Multi-channel growth teams
When you already spend across several channels, Pinterest has to prove what it adds. We fit it into your measurement framework and work alongside your in-house team or other agencies.
How it works
We review your business model, current acquisition channels, products, and growth objectives.
We assess your Pinterest account, conversion tracking, creative assets, and store experience.
We develop the campaign strategy, measurement setup, and prioritized optimization roadmap.
We monitor performance, test creative concepts, refine campaigns, and identify new growth opportunities.
A 30-minute call. If Pinterest is not a good fit for your brand, we will tell you.
Industries
Pinterest rewards products people plan around, compare, and save. These are the categories where we see the clearest fit.
Jewelry & Accessories
Gifting moments, stacking ideas, and close-up detail that sells.
Home Decor & Furniture
Room-by-room inspiration and long, considered purchases.
Beauty & Haircare
Routines, textures, and tutorials people save and repeat.
Fashion & Lifestyle
Outfit planning, seasonal edits, and large catalogs.
Wedding & Events
Long planning cycles and boards built months ahead.
DIY & Creative Products
Project-led discovery for supplies, kits, and gifts.
Pinterest is not the right channel for every business. Impulse products with little visual appeal, or offers that depend on very narrow targeting, often perform better elsewhere. If that is your case, we will say so on the first call.
Case studies
Two real accounts with their numbers, periods, and sources, plus one strategy breakdown. The client brand is anonymized; Noxelya is our founder's own store.
A product pivot, a €10-a-day launch protocol, and Performance+ scaled to €1,546 a day at the December peak.
Read the case study
1,548 orders, a $158 average order, and €230K+ of Meta spend run in-house with age-segmented creative.
Read the case study
Catalog campaigns by price tier, gift-guide creative launched early, and a purchase event checked before the season starts.
Read the breakdownWorking together
No borrowed logos, no invented reviews. Here is how an engagement with Scalypin actually runs, from the first call to the monthly review.
One point of contact who knows your account. Questions are answered by the person doing the work, in a shared channel or by email.
Regular updates on the numbers that matter to your business, with plain-English notes on what changed and why. Every figure is labeled, so you know what is Pinterest-attributed and what is not.
Campaigns run in your ad account, and your data and creative stay yours. We work alongside your team, your designers, and any other agencies you use.
Every review ends with prioritized next steps, including when the best move is outside Pinterest, such as a product page fix or a tracking repair.
A note from the founder
I started on the operator side, and I still work there. My own Shopify brand, Noxelya, launched on December 31, 2025. Between April and July, it did $245K in revenue in 16 weeks. I run its ad accounts myself, with more than €230K spent on Meta so far, so I know how it feels when a channel gets expensive and the ad account looks like the only lever left.
On the client side, the Pinterest program I built with a US pet brand turned €119K of ad spend into €496K of Pinterest-attributed revenue in 11 months. It started at €10 a day.
Scalypin exists because most agencies optimize the platform they sell. I would rather optimize your business. Pinterest is usually where we start, because that is where most brands leave the most demand untouched. But the job is your growth: the tracking, the store, the offer, and the channels around it.
Book a call and you speak with me, not an account manager reading a script. If Pinterest is right for your brand, I will show you where to start. If it is not, I will tell you that too.
Aurélien, founder of Scalypin
FAQ
Short, straight answers. If yours is not here, ask it on a strategy call.
It can be, especially for brands with visual products that people plan, compare, or buy for an occasion. Many Pinterest users browse with a purchase in mind but no brand chosen yet, which gives newer brands a real chance to be discovered. Results still depend on your products, margins, creative, and tracking, so we assess fit before recommending a budget.
Categories where inspiration drives the purchase tend to fit best: jewelry and accessories, home decor and furniture, fashion, beauty and haircare, weddings and events, DIY and craft supplies, and home and garden. Seasonal and gifting products also do well because people plan ahead on Pinterest. Commodity products with no visual angle are usually a weaker fit.
Meta reaches people while they scroll social content. Pinterest reaches people while they search, browse, and plan. Pinterest targeting leans on keywords and interests alongside audiences, and pins can keep earning saves and clicks longer than a typical social post. Meta usually offers more reach. Most brands use Pinterest as an additional channel rather than a replacement, and we compare the two with consistent attribution settings.
There is no universal number. A useful test budget depends on your target cost per acquisition, average order value, product margins, and how many conversions a campaign needs to leave its learning phase. On a strategy call we work through these figures with you and propose a test budget you can afford to learn from.
Plan for several weeks at minimum. Pinterest indicates that Performance+ campaigns typically spend around two weeks in a learning phase, and purchases from Pinterest often follow a longer consideration period than on other channels. The right window depends on your traffic, conversion volume, and purchase cycle, so we agree on evaluation criteria before launch.
Performance+ is Pinterest's suite of automated campaign tools. It uses machine learning to handle parts of targeting, bidding, budget allocation, and creative enhancement for the Consideration, Leads, and Sales objectives. It can save setup time and improve efficiency, but it depends on clean conversion data and strong creative. We decide account by account when to use it and when manual control works better.
You need a catalog to run shopping ads and catalog-based Sales campaigns, including dynamic retargeting. For Shopify stores, the Pinterest app can sync your product feed. You can run Sales campaigns with standard Pins without a catalog, but most retailers with more than a handful of products benefit from connecting one.
The Pinterest Tag is a script on your site that sends events such as page visits, add to cart, and checkout from the visitor's browser. The Pinterest Conversions API sends the same kinds of events from a server. Using both, with a shared event ID so duplicates are removed, usually gives Pinterest a more complete picture than the tag alone. Some conversions will still go unmeasured because of consent choices, browser restrictions, and cross-device journeys.
Yes. Depending on your stack, we use the Conversions API connection available through the Pinterest app for Shopify, a server-side tracking platform such as WeTracked when it suits your setup, or a custom Conversions API integration. We then validate events, values, and deduplication. Server-side tracking improves data quality. It does not make attribution perfect.
No. Pinterest is our specialty and usually where we start, but we work as a growth partner. That covers conversion tracking, your store's conversion rate, how Pinterest fits with Meta and Google, and the email flows that bring customers back. We focus on what moves new customers and margin, whichever channel that is.
Yes. Most of our work is with Shopify and Shopify Plus stores. We also work with other e-commerce platforms when the Pinterest Tag and Conversions API can be implemented cleanly.
Yes. An account audit covers campaign structure, targeting, bidding, catalog setup, creative, conversion tracking, and reporting. You receive prioritized findings and an action plan you can use whether or not you keep working with us.
Both. You can start with a Pinterest Ads audit, a tracking audit, or a CRO audit as a standalone project. Many brands then move to ongoing management, where we run campaigns, creative testing, and reporting month to month.
Book a free strategy call with the form below. We will ask a few questions about your store, channels, and goals, and review your setup before the call. If Pinterest looks like a good fit, you receive a proposal with scope and next steps.
Free strategy call
Let's review your current acquisition strategy, identify opportunities, and determine whether Pinterest is a good fit for your brand.